[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 191, Issue 32

[Panchanathan Suresh]

Brilliant suggestions from everyone. Thanks a ton!

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 9:01 AM <tutor-request at python.org> wrote:

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> From: Panchanathan Suresh <suresh.gm at gmail.com>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:03:29 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] How to remove the comma only at the end?
> Thanks a lot Mark and Alex, really appreciate it.
>
> I thought about this more and then this worked  return members[:-2]
> (-2 because there is an extra space after , in members = members + users[x]
> + ", ")
>
> I was all along trying -1 and was unsuccessful.
>
> Thanks again.
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:02 AM Panchanathan Suresh <suresh.gm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Thanks a lot Mark and Alex, really appreciate it.
> >
> > I thought about this more and then this worked  return members[:-2]
> > (-2 because there is an extra space after , in members = members +
> > users[x] + ", ")
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:50 AM Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2020-01-24 05:12, Panchanathan Suresh wrote:
> >> > Hi everyone,
> >> >
> >> > How to remove the last comma , from the variable members?
> >> > I tried members[:-1], members.rstrip(","), but no luck. It is
> >> > always returning:
> >> > Mike, Karen, Jake, Tasha,
> >> >
> >> > I want it to return Mike, Karen, Jake, Tasha (no comma after Tasha)
> >> >
> >> > Below is my code:
> >> >
> >> > *****
> >> > def group_list(group, users):
> >> >   members = ""
> >> >   members1 = ""
> >> >   for x in range(0,len(users)):
> >> >       #print(users[x])
> >> >       members = members + users[x] + ", "
> >> >   return members[:-1]
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > print(group_list("Marketing", ["Mike", "Karen", "Jake", "Tasha"])) #
> >> > Should
> >> > be "Marketing: Mike, Karen, Jake, Tasha"
> >> >
> >>
> >> You might find the str join method useful;
> >> more specifically:
> >> >>> ', '.join(["Mike", "Karen", "Jake", "Tasha"])
> >>
> >
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